That song seems like such a direct ripoff of Diana Ross’ You Just Keep Me Hanging On that I’m really surprised she’s not sued.
James Hetfield starts “Whiplash” on the Live Sh*t concert album with “1, 2… 4, 3, 2 and a half!”
She can’t because she had nothing to do with the song except sing it.
As far as I can determine, the Supremes weren’t even the first to put the song out. Jackie Wilson was.
It was written by the Motown team of Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland. They’re the ones with the rights, unless they signed them away to Motown.
Writers rights!